Kerala PSC Assistant Professor 2020 – Check Syllabus

Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) has released recruitment notification for the post of Assistant Professor in Medical and Engineering Colleges. Applications are invited from qualified candidates for selecting to the Assistant Professor post in Kerala Government Service. Applications must be submitted online only through the official website of the Kerala Public Service Commission after ‘ONE TIME REGISTRATION’. This article provides the detailed Kerala PSC Assistant Professor 2020: Syllabus (Medical and Engineering Colleges).

NB: 3% of the vacancies are reserved for Differently abled candidates with Locomotor Disability/ Cerebral Palsy and Low Vision only (As per G.O. (P).No. 61/12/SWD dated 17.10.2012) and Hearing Impairment (As per G.O(P) No.9/2019/SJD dated 04/09/2019).

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Kerala PSC Assistant Professor 2020: Syllabus

Kerala Public Service Commission conducts an examination for selecting the applicants to the job position of Assistant Professor. There will be 100 questions and each right answer carries one mark. For each wrong answer 0.33 marks will be deducted. The exam shall comprise questions based on Educational qualification, General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Renaissance in Kerala. Candidates can prepare for the exam from now on. To score high marks in the exam, candidates can undoubtedly utilize the Kerala PSC Assistant Professor 2020 Syllabus attached in this page.

Kerala PSC Exam pattern of Assistant Professor 2020 selection examination in the Kerala Architecture – Engg. Colleges (Technical Education).

Kerala PSC Exam pattern of Assistant Professor 2020 selection examination in the Engineering Colleges (Technical Education).

Syllabus (Engineering Colleges)

Candidates who have applied for Assistant Professor in Engineering colleges can check out the following syllabus.

Module 1: General Knowledge

• Salient Features of Indian Constitution
• Social Welfare Legislation and Programmes
• Renaissance in Kerala
• Towards a New Society
• Efforts To Reform the Society
• Socio-Religious reform Movements
• Struggles and Social Revolts
• Role of Press In Renaissance
• Awakening Through Literature
• Women and Social Change
• Leaders of Renaissance
• Literary Figures
• General Knowledge and Current Affairs

Module 2: Engineering Mathematics

• Matrices
• Partial Differentiation
• Vector Differentiation
• Laplace Transforms
• Ordinary Differential Equations
• Complex Analysis
• Fourier Series

Basic Civil Engineering:

• Mechanics
• Coplanar forces
• Simply supported and overhanging beams
• Friction – Laws of friction – applications
• Common building materials – stone, brick, cement, steel, aggregate, concrete, timber
• Building construction – types and functions
• Surveying – principle of surveying
• Foundations and superstructure

Basic Mechanical Engineering:

• Zeroth, first and second laws of thermodynamics, CI and SI Engines
• Centrifugal and reciprocating pumps, hydraulic turbines, refrigeration and air conditioning
• Hydro-electric, thermal and nuclear power plants, mechanical power transmission systems
• Manufacturing process – casting, forging, rolling, brazing, soldering, and welding
• Machining process – turning, shaping, drilling, grinding and milling
• Conic sections and miscellaneous curves, orthographic, isometric and perspective projections

Module 3: Basic Electrical Engineering

• Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s laws – solution of series and parallel circuits with dc excitation
• Magnetic circuits: MMF, field strength, flux density, reluctance, electromagnetic induction
• Faraday’s laws, Lenz’s law, statically and dynamically induced emfs
• Self and mutual induction, co-efficient of coupling
• Principle of generation of alternating current – waveforms – frequency, period, average, rms values
• Generation of 3 phase ac voltage, star and delta connections
• Principle of operation of dc motor & generator
• Single phase transformer and three phase induction motor
• Types of lamps, necessity of earthing

Basic Electronics Engineering

• Devices – working principle of PN junction, Zener diode and BJT
• Systems – Rectifiers : Half wave, Full wave and Bridge
• Filters: Capacitors and Inductors
• Amplifiers & Oscillators – Common Emitter RC coupled amplifier and its frequency response
• Principles of Wein-bridge oscillator
• Op-amps: Basics, inverting and non-inverting amplifier
• Communication – Need for modulation, principles of AM and FM
• Measurements – Working principles of CRO and Multimeter

Basic Computer Science

• Functional units of a computer
• Programming in C – control structures, functions

Syllabus (Medical colleges)

It includes syllabus of Ophthalmology, Pulmonary Medicine, Community Dentistry, Anaesthesia, Periodontics, etc.

Ophthalmology

• Anatomy and Physiology
• Ophthalmic Optics
• Ocular Examination Techniques and Ocular Therapeutics
• Diseases of the Eye
• Disorders of Motility
• Diseases of the Adnexa
• Systemic Ophthalmology
• Preventive Ophthalmology
• Surgical Instruments in Ophthalmology

Pulmonary Medicine

• Basic Sciences
• Surgical aspects of Pulmonary Medicine
• Interventional pulmonology
• Infections
• Non-infectious Lung Diseases
• Pulmonary Circulatory disorders
• Obstructive diseases of the lungs
• Tumors of the lungs
• Diseases of the mediastinum
• Disorders of the pleura
• Critical Care Pulmonary Medicine
• Extra pulmonary manifestations of pulmonary diseases
• Sleep-related pulmonary diseases
• Preventive Pulmonology

Community Dentistry

• Nutrition and Oral Health
• Nutrition for Oral Health promotion through the Life Cycle
• Applied Nutrition in Clinical Practice
• Sociology and Behavioural Sciences
• Public Health
• Health Care Systems and National Health Programmes in India
• Dental Public Health
• Dental Council of India DCI and Indian Consumer Protection Act
• Survey Methods in Health Research
• Epidemiology – Clinical Trials, Diagnostic Testing, Medical Surveillance
• Biostatistics in Oral Healthcare
• Preventive Dentistry
• Ozone in prevention of Dental diseases

Anesthesia

• Basic Sciences
• History of Anesthesia
• Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology and Genetics related to Anesthesia
• Uptake and Distribution of Anesthetic Agents
• Clinical, General, Ambulatory, Regional Anesthesia
• Non-Operating Room Anesthesia
• Cognitive Dysfunction and the Long term Complication of Surgery and Anesthesia
• Spinal Epidural and Caudal Anesthesia
• Regional Anesthesia in Children
• Anesthesia for Laser Surgery, Robotically Conducted Surgery
• Anesthesia for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
• Critical Care and Pain Management
• Fundamental Principles of Monitoring Instrumentation
• Equipment used in Anesthesia
• Accidents, Complications and Sequelae of Anesthesia
• Patient Simulators

Periodontics

• Normal Periodontium – Defense mechanisms of Gingiva, Aging and Periodontium
• Classification and Epidemiology of Periodontal Disease
• Etiopathogenesis
• Microbial interactions with the host in Periodontal Diseases
• Smoking and Periodontal Disease
• Diagnosis – Radiographic & Microbiological Diagnostic Aids
• Determination of Prognosis
• Treatment – Surgical and Non-Surgical Therapy
• Oral Implantology – Biological Aspects of Dental Implants
• Interdisciplinary Periodontics
• Maintenance Phase – Supportive Periodontal Treatment
• Recent Advances in Lasers, Tissue Engineering, Photodynamic Therapy, Piezo surgery, etc.

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